Choose a topic for your paper and type it here:
(5 points)
write a critical paper about how unsupportive home
enviorments can cause a student to do poorly in school
February 4 — thesis due
Your thesis tells your readers what point you will be making and defending about the novel. For a guide to writing your thesis (and some examples) click here. Write your thesis here:
(5 points)
this novel is about a a six year old girl that is cery aggressive and angry she killed a 3 year old boy by setting him on fire there she was sent to a school where everything had changed she took to a teacher there soon within 2 months she was on her best behavior her and that teacher built a realtionship this was a girl that never cried or felt hurt on the outside she started to show her feelings all because of one teacher.
February 5 — identify three main body topics
Your three main body topics are the main topics you will use to defend your thesis.
You should use at least three different subtopics (main bodies) to defend your thesis in the paper.
Many students use 4, 5, or even more main body topics to organize their papers.
THREE IS JUST A MINIMUM.
Please enter (at least) three main body topics here:
(5 points)
1)the little girl is very angry
2)the little girl is agressive
3)the little girl gets tamded
February 6 — introductory paragraph due
Your intro paragrpah tells your readers the thesis of your paper, and briefly outlines the main body paragraph topics you will use to prove and defend your thesis. Type (or link to) your Introductory Paragraph here:
(10 points)
At the beging there was a little girl who was six and her name was shalia she was a very angry/agressive little child. her caseworker and the
court are waiting to send her to a crisis hospital. but in that will be a long wait so in that case they had to find an alternative until then. so they
had decided to put her in a school until that time would have came along. until then shila was rude ignorant and loud she throw 3 tantrums a day the wouldn't do any paper work when the teachers tired to put a worksheet in fornt of her she would ripe it and throw it . it was clear that shila was in desprite need of te hospitalization. a couple months went past and shalia no longer ripped up the worksheets she partiatated in all of the activites she was on her best behavior but that all changed when her teacher had to go to a meeting for two days. shalia was just plain disrespectful to the sub and the students she had just started to get along with in her class. she started from when she first arrived in the school but she was far worse then she had ever been.Shalia had thought that yet another person walked out of
her life even though her teacher had said that she was coming back in two days. shalia had it in her mind that she wasnt so from there shalia act up.
February 7 — critical articles (secondary sources) due
You need at least three secondary sources (essays or articles about the novel written by professional critics) from which you will quote the words of the author/critic to help defend your thesis. List the titles and authors of your three secondary sources here:
(5 points)
1)
2)
3)
NOTE: It is a good idea to find more than three articles in case you change your mind about using one of them. Remember, your final paper must have a total of 8-15 quotes from these secondary sources to help you make your point and defend your thesis. These eight quotes must come from at least three different secondary sources.
February 8 — secondary source quotes
Using each of your three articles at least once, select at least 8 details or quotes from your articles to defend thesis.
YOU MUST LIST THE QUOTE, THE SOURCE OF THE QUOTE, AND THE MAIN BODY TOPIC OF YOUR PAPER WHERE YOU WILL USE THE QUOTE. List at least eight quotes from secondary sources here:
(5 points)
1) QUOTE:
TITLE & PAGE:
AUTHOR:
SUBTOPIC:
2) QUOTE:
TITLE & PAGE:
AUTHOR:
SUBTOPIC:
3) QUOTE:
TITLE & PAGE:
AUTHOR:
SUBTOPIC:
4) QUOTE:
TITLE & PAGE:
AUTHOR:
SUBTOPIC:
5) QUOTE:
TITLE & PAGE:
AUTHOR:
SUBTOPIC:
6) QUOTE:
TITLE & PAGE:
AUTHOR:
SUBTOPIC:
7) QUOTE:
TITLE & PAGE:
AUTHOR:
SUBTOPIC:
8) QUOTE:
TITLE & PAGE:
AUTHOR:
SUBTOPIC:
(Feel free to add additional quotes here, using the same format as above)
February 11 — primary source quotes
Please select at least 10 details from the novel to defend thesis Feb 11 List them here:
(5 points)
1) QUOTE:she was 6 and a half almost a tiny little mite of a thing with
matted hair hostile eyes and a very bad smell
PAGE NUMBER: 17
SUBTOPIC:appearence
2) QUOTE:hi my name is torey i said in a very friendly
voice while reaching for her hand but she didnt respond.
PAGE NUMBER: 18
SUBTOPIC:
3) QUOTE:well she does stink terrible peter reported about sheila
PAGE NUMBER: 20
SUBTOPIC:smelly
4) QUOTE: she folded herself up into a little lump her arms wrapped
tightly around her knees.
PAGE NUMBER: 20
SUBTOPIC:affraid
5) QUOTE: dont she talk?
PAGE NUMBER: 21
SUBTOPIC: quiet
6) QUOTE:i deposited shelia on a chair at the math table and got out a paper this
evoked her first response. she grabbed the paper and throw it at torey
PAGE NUMBER: 22
SUBTOPIC: rude
7) QUOTE:i looked down at her and she up at me. i thought that brief moment i saw
an emotion other then hate flicker in her eyes something other then hate and anger was it fear?
PAGE NUMBER: 23
SUBTOPIC: emotions
8) QUOTE:the father had spent most of sheilas early years in prison on assault and battery charges
since his realse two years before
PAGE NUMBER: 27
SUBTOPIC: father
9) QUOTE:do you know her father out at the camp?no! that the
otherside of the camp where the white junkies live we never go over there.
PAGE NUMBER: 30
SUBTOPIC: lived
10) QUOTE:i might write something today can i get a piece of paper? no this is paperwork you dont do paperwork remember i wanna do it today
PAGE NUMBER: 110
SUBTOPIC:
(Feel free to add additional quotes here, using the same format as above)
February 12 — outline your main body
Please arrange your 10 primary source quotes and your 8 secondary source quotes into an outline of the body of your critical paper.
In other words, list the quotes in the order you will use them under each main body topic.
If you use a word document to do this, this could become the framework for your actual paper (because you could type your own writing in between the quotes after you've arranged them in order in this outline, thus creating a draft of your actual paper).
Please post (or link to) a word document containing the outline of your main body (everything but your intro and conclusion) here:
(5 points)
February 13 — first draft of main body
Write a draft of the body of your paper for peer review.
Please create a link to this first draft, calling it (YOURNAME)'S FIRST DRAFT, as a new wiki page.
Ask at least three of your classmates to read your draft (you might need to tell them where to find it by emailing them a link).
Students will be expected to read each other's drafts and leave comments in the discussion board.
(10 points)
February 14 — peer review
List the names of at least three of your classmates whose first drafts you read and commented upon:
(5 points)
1)
2)
3)
At this point, begin revising your draft and come up with a second rough draft.
February 19 — final rough draft
Submit a paper copy of your final draft of the body to the teacher.
(20 points)
February 21 — rough draft of conclusion paragraph
Please type (or link to) the rough draft of your conclusion paragraph here:
(5 points)
February 22 — final draft of conclusion paragraph
Revise your conclusion paragraph and present a copy to your teacher today. Also, please type (or link to) the rough draft of your conclusion paragraph here:
(10 points)
February 25 — Works Cited Page due
Turn in a paper copy of your works cited page to your teacher today! Link to the Word document of your works cited page here:
(20 points)
February 27 — CRITICAL PAPER DUE!!!
Turn in the final draft of critical paper TODAY, including:
a) note cards
b) outline of body
c) all rough drafts
d) completed checklist, signed
e) final draft of paper, typed, double spaced (5-7 pgs.)
f) final works cited / references page
(100 points)
March 5 — TURN IT IN (dot com)
Today is the final day for MANDATORY submission of your final critical paper to www.turnitin.com
FAILURE TO SUBMIT YOUR PAPER TO TURNITIN.COM WILL RESULT IN A ZERO ON YOUR PAPER!
Hooray!! You're done!
Now let's have some fun making our Julius Caesar movie!
Nereida Emory's Critical Paper
Back to Critical Papers HomeJanuary 29 — folder and parent signature due
Did you show the teacher your Parent Signature? (5 pts.)
YES
January 30 — note cards due
Did you show the teacher your one pack of 3x5 notecards? (5 pts.)YES
Did you buy your own copy of The Catcher in the Rye to mark up? (optional)
NO
January 31 — select a topic
View a list of potential paper topics:Choose a topic for your paper and type it here:
(5 points)
write a critical paper about how unsupportive home
enviorments can cause a student to do poorly in school
February 4 — thesis due
Your thesis tells your readers what point you will be making and defending about the novel. For a guide to writing your thesis (and some examples) click here. Write your thesis here:
(5 points)
this novel is about a a six year old girl that is cery aggressive and angry she killed a 3 year old boy by setting him on fire there she was sent to a school where everything had changed she took to a teacher there soon within 2 months she was on her best behavior her and that teacher built a realtionship this was a girl that never cried or felt hurt on the outside she started to show her feelings all because of one teacher.
February 5 — identify three main body topics
Your three main body topics are the main topics you will use to defend your thesis.You should use at least three different subtopics (main bodies) to defend your thesis in the paper.
Many students use 4, 5, or even more main body topics to organize their papers.
THREE IS JUST A MINIMUM.
Please enter (at least) three main body topics here:
(5 points)
1)the little girl is very angry
2)the little girl is agressive
3)the little girl gets tamded
February 6 — introductory paragraph due
Your intro paragrpah tells your readers the thesis of your paper, and briefly outlines the main body paragraph topics you will use to prove and defend your thesis.Type (or link to) your Introductory Paragraph here:
(10 points)
At the beging there was a little girl who was six and her name was shalia she was a very angry/agressive little child. her caseworker and the
court are waiting to send her to a crisis hospital. but in that will be a long wait so in that case they had to find an alternative until then. so they
had decided to put her in a school until that time would have came along. until then shila was rude ignorant and loud she throw 3 tantrums a day the wouldn't do any paper work when the teachers tired to put a worksheet in fornt of her she would ripe it and throw it . it was clear that shila was in desprite need of te hospitalization. a couple months went past and shalia no longer ripped up the worksheets she partiatated in all of the activites she was on her best behavior but that all changed when her teacher had to go to a meeting for two days. shalia was just plain disrespectful to the sub and the students she had just started to get along with in her class. she started from when she first arrived in the school but she was far worse then she had ever been.Shalia had thought that yet another person walked out of
her life even though her teacher had said that she was coming back in two days. shalia had it in her mind that she wasnt so from there shalia act up.
February 7 — critical articles (secondary sources) due
You need at least three secondary sources (essays or articles about the novel written by professional critics) from which you will quote the words of the author/critic to help defend your thesis.List the titles and authors of your three secondary sources here:
(5 points)
1)
2)
3)
NOTE: It is a good idea to find more than three articles in case you change your mind about using one of them. Remember, your final paper must have a total of 8-15 quotes from these secondary sources to help you make your point and defend your thesis. These eight quotes must come from at least three different secondary sources.
February 8 — secondary source quotes
Using each of your three articles at least once, select at least 8 details or quotes from your articles to defend thesis.YOU MUST LIST THE QUOTE, THE SOURCE OF THE QUOTE, AND THE MAIN BODY TOPIC OF YOUR PAPER WHERE YOU WILL USE THE QUOTE.
List at least eight quotes from secondary sources here:
(5 points)
1) QUOTE:
TITLE & PAGE:
AUTHOR:
SUBTOPIC:
2) QUOTE:
TITLE & PAGE:
AUTHOR:
SUBTOPIC:
3) QUOTE:
TITLE & PAGE:
AUTHOR:
SUBTOPIC:
4) QUOTE:
TITLE & PAGE:
AUTHOR:
SUBTOPIC:
5) QUOTE:
TITLE & PAGE:
AUTHOR:
SUBTOPIC:
6) QUOTE:
TITLE & PAGE:
AUTHOR:
SUBTOPIC:
7) QUOTE:
TITLE & PAGE:
AUTHOR:
SUBTOPIC:
8) QUOTE:
TITLE & PAGE:
AUTHOR:
SUBTOPIC:
(Feel free to add additional quotes here, using the same format as above)
February 11 — primary source quotes
Please select at least 10 details from the novel to defend thesis Feb 11List them here:
(5 points)
1) QUOTE:she was 6 and a half almost a tiny little mite of a thing with
matted hair hostile eyes and a very bad smell
PAGE NUMBER: 17
SUBTOPIC:appearence
2) QUOTE:hi my name is torey i said in a very friendly
voice while reaching for her hand but she didnt respond.
PAGE NUMBER: 18
SUBTOPIC:
3) QUOTE:well she does stink terrible peter reported about sheila
PAGE NUMBER: 20
SUBTOPIC:smelly
4) QUOTE: she folded herself up into a little lump her arms wrapped
tightly around her knees.
PAGE NUMBER: 20
SUBTOPIC:affraid
5) QUOTE: dont she talk?
PAGE NUMBER: 21
SUBTOPIC: quiet
6) QUOTE:i deposited shelia on a chair at the math table and got out a paper this
evoked her first response. she grabbed the paper and throw it at torey
PAGE NUMBER: 22
SUBTOPIC: rude
7) QUOTE:i looked down at her and she up at me. i thought that brief moment i saw
an emotion other then hate flicker in her eyes something other then hate and anger was it fear?
PAGE NUMBER: 23
SUBTOPIC: emotions
8) QUOTE:the father had spent most of sheilas early years in prison on assault and battery charges
since his realse two years before
PAGE NUMBER: 27
SUBTOPIC: father
9) QUOTE:do you know her father out at the camp?no! that the
otherside of the camp where the white junkies live we never go over there.
PAGE NUMBER: 30
SUBTOPIC: lived
10) QUOTE:i might write something today can i get a piece of paper? no this is paperwork you dont do paperwork remember i wanna do it today
PAGE NUMBER: 110
SUBTOPIC:
(Feel free to add additional quotes here, using the same format as above)
February 12 — outline your main body
Please arrange your 10 primary source quotes and your 8 secondary source quotes into an outline of the body of your critical paper.In other words, list the quotes in the order you will use them under each main body topic.
If you use a word document to do this, this could become the framework for your actual paper (because you could type your own writing in between the quotes after you've arranged them in order in this outline, thus creating a draft of your actual paper).
Please post (or link to) a word document containing the outline of your main body (everything but your intro and conclusion) here:
(5 points)
February 13 — first draft of main body
Write a draft of the body of your paper for peer review.Please create a link to this first draft, calling it (YOURNAME)'S FIRST DRAFT, as a new wiki page.
Ask at least three of your classmates to read your draft (you might need to tell them where to find it by emailing them a link).
Students will be expected to read each other's drafts and leave comments in the discussion board.
(10 points)
February 14 — peer review
List the names of at least three of your classmates whose first drafts you read and commented upon:(5 points)
1)
2)
3)
At this point, begin revising your draft and come up with a second rough draft.
February 19 — final rough draft
Submit a paper copy of your final draft of the body to the teacher.(20 points)
February 21 — rough draft of conclusion paragraph
Please type (or link to) the rough draft of your conclusion paragraph here:(5 points)
February 22 — final draft of conclusion paragraph
Revise your conclusion paragraph and present a copy to your teacher today.Also, please type (or link to) the rough draft of your conclusion paragraph here:
(10 points)
February 25 — Works Cited Page due
Turn in a paper copy of your works cited page to your teacher today!Link to the Word document of your works cited page here:
(20 points)
February 27 — CRITICAL PAPER DUE!!!
Turn in the final draft of critical paper TODAY, including:a) note cards
b) outline of body
c) all rough drafts
d) completed checklist, signed
e) final draft of paper, typed, double spaced (5-7 pgs.)
f) final works cited / references page
(100 points)
March 5 — TURN IT IN (dot com)
Today is the final day for MANDATORY submission of your final critical paper to www.turnitin.comFAILURE TO SUBMIT YOUR PAPER TO TURNITIN.COM WILL RESULT IN A ZERO ON YOUR PAPER!
Hooray!! You're done!
Now let's have some fun making our Julius Caesar movie!